Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
RYAN HOLIDAYFailure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
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Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
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Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
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The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.
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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
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